Developmental Psychology

Study lessons

1. 1

   Foundations, Theories, and Research MethodsFree sample

   The debates, grand theories, and research designs that frame every developmental item on the board, from Freud to Bronfenbrenner to cohort effects.

   15 min
2. 2

   Genetics, Prenatal Development, and the Newborn

   How genes become traits, how nine months turn a single cell into a newborn, and how teratogens and APGAR scoring make or break that journey.

   15 min
3. 3

   Physical, Brain, and Motor Development

   How the body follows fixed growth directions, how neurons wire and prune themselves into a working brain, and how infants see, move, and grow into childhood.

   15 min
4. 4

   Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development

   How a child's thinking is built and rebuilt through four stages, from an infant's object permanence to a teenager's hypothetical reasoning, and why the board loves to test the gap between them.

   15 min
5. 5

   Vygotsky and the Information-Processing View

   How culture and language build the mind in Vygotsky's theory, and how attention, memory stores, and metacognition build it in the information-processing view.

   15 min
6. 6

   Language Development

   How children build sound, meaning, and grammar from cooing to fluent sentences, and the Chomsky-versus-Skinner debate the board always tests.

   15 min
7. 7

   Moral Development

   How children and adults reason about right and wrong, from Piaget's two moralities through Kohlberg's six stages to Gilligan's ethic of care.

   15 min
8. 8

   Attachment and Temperament

   How Bowlby, Ainsworth, Harlow, and Lorenz explain the infant-caregiver bond, and how Thomas and Chess show why the same parenting fits some children better than others.

   15 min
9. 9

   Erikson's Psychosocial Stages

   Eight psychosocial crises, from an infant's first taste of trust to an elder's final reckoning with a life lived, and the exact virtue the board expects you to name at each one.

   15 min
10. 10

    Social, Emotional, and Family Development

    How children learn to feel, play, befriend, and become gendered selves inside Baumrind's parenting styles and Bronfenbrenner's nested family systems.

    15 min
11. 11

    Adolescence

    How puberty, new abstract reasoning, Marcia's identity statuses, and shifting peer and family ties combine to explain why adolescents think, bond, and risk the way they do.

    15 min
12. 12

    Adulthood, Aging, Death, and Dying

    How Levinson's seasons, Erikson's generativity, crystallized versus fluid intelligence, and Kubler-Ross's stages of dying map the second half of the lifespan the board tests hardest.

    15 min

Section practice test

35 test sets covering the whole Developmental Psychology section, 1400 original questions with explanations. After you finish the lessons above, prove it here. Randomized every run.